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The 2018 Indian motorcycle calendar includes 16 models, up from 12 aftermost year. Indian bumped up the appearance and added new blush choices to several models for 2018, and while best prices backward the same, some went up — and one went conspicuously down. Across Indian’s 2018 calendar you’ll see changes in tech, convenience, and style.
The new for 2018 top-of-the-line Roadmaster Elite has a $37,000 starting amount that ability accomplish you admiration if it’s corrective with gold — and in fact, it is. We’ve already looked at (and appropriately ridden) the 2018 Indian Scout Bobber, a stripped-down, blacked-out adaptation of the acclaimed Scout that’s new for this archetypal year. The added new 2018 Indian motorcycles accommodate the Springfield Dark Horse archetypal and the new Chieftain Classic.
We’ve included beneath all the advice you charge to accept one of the accepted 2018 Indian motorcycles; the abounding calendar will be in dealership showrooms in September. But accumulate in apperception that Indian loves bound copy appropriate models. The aggregation has done awfully able-bodied with bound copy models like its Jack Daniels collaborative editions, bound copy Chieftains, and Scout FTR750 collapsed clue antagonism bikes.
Indian Vice President of Motorcycles Kevin Reilly told Digital Trends in aboriginal July that more limited copy bikes absolutely will be offered in the 2018 archetypal year. Accumulate in apperception the 50th anniversary of Burt Munro’s ceaseless 1967 acreage acceleration almanac — Indian calls it the Spirit of Munro; we won’t be afraid to see a bound Munro Copy Scout. Indian’s connected success in the American Collapsed Clue 2017 division ability additionally affect appropriate editions. As mentioned in an amend below, Indian showed a custom Scout FTR1200 at the world’s better motorcycle appearance in Milan, possibly as a forerunner to a appropriate copy in 2018 or a 2019 assembly model.
Indian alien a custom Scout FTR1200 at the EICMA 2017 accident in Milan in November. The one-off bike will be apparent at contest common through the end of 2018 to account the Indian branch team’s ambit of the 2017 American Collapsed Clue season. Indian Motorcycle additionally wants to adjudicator accessible acknowledgment to a abeyant street-legal adaptation with a beyond agent of the FTR750 track-only motorcycle ridden by Mees, Baker, and Smith.
Since Polaris bought and active the Indian casting in 2013, the focus has been all about cruisers, baggers, and touring bikes. The abundantly able aperture division in collapsed clue antagonism may accord the aggregation an beforehand than accepted adventitious to extend the casting to on-off alley achievement bikes, whether powered by 750cc engines or the Scout 1133cc agent already acclimated with the Indian Scout and Scout Bobber.
Indian Motorcycle’s re-entry in American Collapsed Clue Antagonism concluded in a division sweep. The aggregation not abandoned angry up the Manufacturer’s Award for the 2017 division in August, but the Indian branch aggregation additionally took top ceremoniousness for the season. Jared Mees, Bryan Smith, and Brad Baker, aka the “Indian Wrecking Crew,” won 14 of the 18 races.
The leash took all three top spots on the winner’s belvedere in six contest and captured 37 out of the absolute 54 belvedere spots in the season. Jared Mees, who placed aboriginal in 10 contest and was on the belvedere 17 times, anchored his fourth Grand National Championship. Smith and Baker came in additional and third, appropriately for the 2017 season.
2017 AFT division Indian Wrecking Crew: Jared Mees #9, Brad Baker #6, Bryan Smith #1
Indian’s aboriginal AFT division in 63 years was an absorbing comeback. The big division was additionally a nod to aggregation founders George Hendee and Oscar Hedstrom, two bike racers who in 1901 formed the aggregation that became Indian Motorcycles accurately to actualize reliable antagonism motorcycles.
All Indians are powered by what best accede ample to huge V-twin engines. The aboriginal agent on what Indian refers to as its “mid-size” motorcycles is the Scout Sixty’s 61-cubic inch (999cc) 78 application motor. The Indian Scout and Scout Bobber allotment a 69-cubic inch (1,133cc) 100 hp engine. Best torque hits at 65 lb-ft @ 5,800 RPM on the Scout Sixty and 72 lb-ft at 6,000 RPM on the Scout and Bobber.
The three Scout mid-size bikes accept aqueous cooling. The Scout Sixty agent has an 11.1:1 compression arrangement and the Scout and Scout Bobber’s beyond motor has a 10.7:1 ratio. Therefore it’s not hasty Indian recommends 91 octane ammunition in the 3.3-gallon ammunition tanks.
The actual 2018 models use Indian’s Thunder Stroke 111-cubic inch (1,811cc) engine, air cooled for all Chieftain and Roadmaster models, which use a aggregate of air and oil cooling. Indian doesn’t absolution application abstracts for the big engine, but its best 119-pound-feet of torque is accessible at a low 3,000 RPM, which agency abounding affairs ability is accessible with a slight burke twist. The big agent has a 9.5:1 compression arrangement which ability advance you to anticipate 87-octane approved gas is fine, but the 2017 Indian owners manual still recommends 91-octane exceptional unleaded gas for the 5.5-gallon ammunition tank.
Indian’s blacked-out Dark Horse models are acutely accepting traction: The calendar now includes Dark Horse Chief, Springfield, and Chieftain variants. There’s no Dark Horse Roadmaster yet, but the blacked-out Scout Bobber fits the description after the label.
Six 2018 Indian motorcycle models appear accepted with the latest adaptation of the company’s Ride Command Infotainment System. This arrangement is so far unparalleled on added motorcycles, although Harley-Davidson’s Boom! Box Infotainment system comes the closest. The Ride Command arrangement has a 7-inch, aerial resolution, multitouch, squeezable interface awning with a fast 10-second-from-key-on acknowledgment time. Added infotainment appearance accommodate a different breach awning display, turn-by-turn GPS aeronautics with up to 100 way credibility for custom routes, and a exceptional audio system.
The Indian Chieftain Classic, Chieftain Dark Horse, Chieftain Limited, and Roadmaster Classic accept 100-watt audio chip with the Ride Command arrangement with AM/FM, Bluetooth, and USB input. The Roadmaster bumps the ability up to 200 watts and the Roadmaster Elite pumps 300-watts of sound.
The three Scout versions allotment best concrete and automated appearance except for their engines and transmissions. The Scout variants’ 999cc and 1,133cc engines are baby for Indian, but high-middle or top of the ambit for added brands. The Scout Sixty uses the 999cc agent with a 5-speed transmission. The Scout and Scout Bobber allotment the 1,133cc agent and 6-speed transmission.
The new Scout Sixty is mechanically identical to the 2017 model. There are two new colors, Polished Bronze and Thunder Atramentous over Titanium Metallic. ABS is accessible abandoned with specific colors, as with the Scout and Scout Bobber. Here’s the Scout Sixty breakdown: After ABS, Thunder Atramentous ($9,000) and Polished Bronze ($9,500). With ABS, Scout Sixty’s are accessible in Indian Motorcycle Red ($10,000) and Thunder Atramentous over Titanium Metallic ($10,500).
The 2018 Scout has new performance, functional, and appearance features. The Scout now comes with accepted armament angle advanced suspension, Pirelli tires, a covering commuter pillion seat, and bottom pegs, and it comes in two new colors: Metallic Jade and Willow Green over Ivory Cream. The Scout has a $200 starting amount access this year. Blush and ABS combinations include Thunder Atramentous with no ABS ($11,500), Metallic Jade after ABS ($12,000), Burgundy Metallic with ABS ($12,500), Willow Green over Ivory Cream with ABS ($13,000), and Brilliant Blue over White with ABS ($13,000).
The 2018 Indian Scout Bobber is a new access this year, bringing a blacked-out, bald bottomward attending with accession bottom pegs confused aback 1.5-inches from Indian’s accepted added cruiser-style advanced placement. The Bobber has tracker handlebars, blacked out wheels, asperous tires, and a 1-inch bargain suspension. The Bobber is accessible after ABS in four colors: Thunder Atramentous ($11,500), Star Silver Smoke ($12,000), Bronze Smoke ($12,000), and Indian Motorcycle Red ($12,000). If you appetite a Bobber with ABS, it abandoned comes in Thunder Atramentous Smoke ($12,500). “Smoke” for Indian Motorcycles agency a matte, unglossy finish.
Indian’s three cruiser bikes are full-sized motorcycles duplicate from the seven the aggregation identifies as “baggers,” with one difference: the cruisers don’t appear accepted with saddlebags or panniers. The cruisers, like the baggers and touring bikes, allotment the Thunder Stroke 111 49-degree V-twin agent and six-speed transmission. All Chiefs accept ABS brakes, behindhand of the bike’s color. If you ambition you can accouterments your Chief with accoutrements and a windshield, but they aren’t included as accepted equipment.
The Indian Chief Dark Horse comes in one blush — matte-black — with a $17,500 starting price. The Dark Horse has a keyless agitation and blacked out account throughout, with bald touches of chrome accents. Like all Chiefs, the Dark Horse has valanced advanced and rear fenders. The Chief Dark Horse has what Indian describes as a “sinister” look.
The accepted 2018 Indian Chief comes in Steel Gray abandoned for $18,500, or $1,000 added than the Chief Dark Horse. The approved Chief has added chrome than the Dark Horse adaptation and adds cruise control, otherwise, they are identical. Like the Dark Horse, the Chief has 16-inch casting wheels.
The 2018 Indian Chief Classic at $19,500 is $1,000 more than the 2017 version. The Chief Classic is differentiated from the Classic and Dark Horse with white bank tires, wire wheels, and chrome duke controls. The Chief Classic looks a little added awakening than the added cruisers, but its handsome Burgundy Metallic acrylic contrasts able-bodied with the massive chromed components.
Indian has added motorcycles that it calls “baggers” in its 2018 calendar than in any added category. The defining affection is the attendance of saddle bags, either covering — with or after binding — or hardcase bifold rear accumulator compartments. Three architecture families are represented in Indian’s bagger lineup: one Chief, two Springfields, and four Chieftains.
The 2018 Indian Chief Vintage, clashing the added Chief models, has accepted covering seats and saddlebags and a quick-release windshield. The Vintage has whitewall tires and spoked wheels. If you appetite both an about boondocks cruiser and a highway-ready touring bike, the Chief Vintage changes its attending decidedly by abacus or removing the windshield. The Chief Vintage is accessible in Thunder Atramentous for $20,000. For $21,000 you can accept amid Sky Blue over Pearl White, Star Silver over Thunder Black, or Willow Green over Ivory Cream.
With its $21,000 starting amount banausic from 2017, the Indian Springfield has new colors this year. The Springfield has quick-release remote-locking hard-side saddlebags, a quick absolution windshield, artery bar, keyless ignition, tire-pressure monitoring, and ABS. Blush choices are Thunder Atramentous ($21,000), Metallic Jade over Thunder Atramentous ($22,100), and Steel Gray over Burgundy Metallic ($22,100).
The Springfield Dark Horse, in matte atramentous with atramentous appearance detailing, is a new archetypal for 2018 with the aforementioned $21,000 starting amount as the Springfield. Clashing the Springfield, which has a valanced advanced fender over a 16-inch casting wheel, the Dark Horse adaptation has an accessible fender with a 19-inch, ten-spoke advanced wheel. The Dark Horse’s accepted appearance accommodate quick-release windshield and remote-locking adamantine saddlebags, annoy burden monitoring, keyless ignition, cruise control, and a artery bar. If you like the Springfield attending but adopt a added blacked-out look, stop here.
Last year’s Indian Chieftain started at $24,000, but for 2018 the aperture amount is $21, 500 in one color, Steel Gray. Aftermost year’s valanced advanced fender and 16-inch caster are gone, replaced by a 19-inch caster and an accessible fender. The Chieftain has a ability windshield with active lights, ABS, cruise control, keyless ignition, artery bar, hard-sided saddlebags, and accepted 7-inch “glove-compatible” infotainment arrangement with 100-watt audio, AM/FM, Bluetooth and USB input, and endless of screens for agent data. Aeronautics isn’t included but you can advancement to the Ride Command Arrangement that’s included on the added Chieftains and the Roadmaster models.
For 2018 the Indian Chieftain Dark Horse has a $2,000 amount increase, with its starting amount now $24,000. The new Dark Horse archetypal now comes accepted with the absolutely loaded Ride Command infotainment arrangement that includes turn-by-turn admonition and a best 100 customizable way credibility to set up your own routes. The 2018 model’s new accessible advanced fender and 19-inch ten-spoke blacked out caster complete the new archetypal year upgrade.
Priced the aforementioned as the Chieftain Dark Horse at $24,000, the Chieftain Classic in Thunder Atramentous has a added acceptable attending with a valanced advanced fender, 16-inch wheels, and a covering bench with fringe. Otherwise, the Chieftain Classic’s accessories account is the aforementioned as the Dark Horse, including the Ride Command infotainment system.
At the top of the Chieftain archetypal band up, the Chieftain Bound starts at $24,500 in Thunder Black. The better differences amid the Chieftain Classic and Bound models are the Limited’s adverse cut 19-inch advanced caster with an accessible advanced fender. The Chieftain Bound is additionally accessible in White Smoke or Brilliant Blue for a $25, 000 starting amount or Thunder Atramentous Pearl with Graphics or Bronze Smoke with Graphics with a starting amount of $25,700.
No one will every aberration a 2018 Indian Roadmaster archetypal for an around-town cruiser. With its ample rear trunk, in either covering or hard-side, accession and commuter floorboards, and a aerial commuter bench with backrest, it’s bright the Roadmasters are accessible for long, accessible alley trips.
The Indian Roadmaster Classic may be the motorcycle best bodies accessory with the casting on looks alone. The Roadmaster Classic is the atomic big-ticket adaptation of the big, abundant touring bikes with endless of binding aerial from the tan covering saddlebags and analogous but un-fringed leather block and seat. If you appetite to go there, a belted bench is available.
Less accessible to onlookers, but added accepted by riders and passengers, all Roadmasters appear accepted with acrimonious accession and commuter seats and acrimonious duke grips. The Classic has the absolutely able Ride Command Infotainment arrangement with a 100-watt exceptional audio setup. This year the Roadmaster is accessible in Indian Motorcycle Red at a $27,000 starting amount and Willow Green over Ivory Cream for a $28,000 starting price. Both colors appear with tan covering seats, saddlebags, and trunk.
The 2018 Roadmaster looks like a avant-garde adaptation of the Roadmaster Classic. The remote-locking saddlebags and block are hard-sided. Otherwise, the accessories account is the aforementioned as the Classic, except for a bumped up 200-watt exceptional audio system. Starting prices for the 2018 Roadmaster depend on the colors. Thunder Atramentous starts at $29,000, Burgundy Metallic at $29,600, and either Polished Bronze over Thunder Atramentous or Pearl White over Star Silver activate at $30,400.
Remember the gold-paint? Actuality we go. The new ultra-premium 2018 Roadmaster Elite starts at $37,000 and comes in one blush combination, Cobalt Bonbon over Atramentous Crystal, but we’ll get to the acrylic job in a minute.
In accession to aggregate abroad that comes accepted on the Roadmaster, the Elite adaptation packs the Ride Command infotainment arrangement with a 300-watt exceptional audio setup, commuter armrests, batten aluminum commuter and disciplinarian floorboards, acme appearance mirrors, and a exceptional touring animate with gauges and controls on the top centermost of the gas tank.
The two-tone bonbon acrylic job is alone hand-finished and requires added than 30 hours of work. Real 23K gold blade badging is duke activated to the catchbasin and lower agent components.
Updated with advice about the custom Scout FTR1200 launched at EICMA 2017 in Milan in November 2017.
